What do we really know about Apple's CEO? Our biography of Tim Cook outlines the person running Apple. Tim Cook is Apple’s CEO (Chief Operating Officer). He became Apple CEO in place of Steve Jobs on 25 August 2011. Cook had previously held the role of Interim CEO during 2004, when Jobs underwent treatment for pancreatic cancer, and again during 2009 when Jobs took time off from Apple. Cook was born on 1 November 1960, and raised in Robertsdale, Alabama (near Mobile). His father was a shipyard worker and his mother a homemaker. Cook graduated from Robertsdale High School and earned a degree in industrial engineering from Auburn University, and an MBA from Duke University.
